Stella Salguero-Ramirez

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Think there aren't enough inspiring women entrepreneurs? You'd better listen to these amazing founders.<p>Successful entrepreneurs are usually inspired by other successful entrepreneurs. That means that if people don't have great role models--especially role models in whom they can see …

Fourteen years ago I moved from Chicago to Paris. The first time I ran a training session in France, I prepared thoroughly, considering how to give the most persuasive presentation possible. I practiced my points, and anticipated questions that might arise.<p>The day of the session, my actions were …

<i>“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy,”</i> E.B. White wrote while contemplating the future of reading in 1951. Indeed, the question of why books matter and what reading does for the human spirit has occupied minds great and …

Are you feeling uninspired and stuck? Perhaps it's the people around you. Here are five ways to get people to challenge and inspire you to success.<p>It's nice to have people around who support you and are of like mind. Agreeable people boost your confidence and allow a certain level of relaxation. …

<i>“Serious cat people, like first-rate art critics, are chivvied by passion into perspicacity,”</i> Anthony Lane wrote in the introduction to the impossibly delightful <i>Big New Yorker Book of Cats</i>. Incidentally, the same can be said of both cartoonists and entrepreneurs, but especially of entrepreneurial …

Ageists in Silicon Valley could learn a thing or two from the feminist icon. Namely: Your career doesn’t (and shouldn’t) peak at 28.<p>There’s an ageism problem in Silicon Valley, such that 40-year-old geezers attempting to get hired by fresh-faced twentysomething startup founders have resorted to …

<i>“Any sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated tends to perpetuate itself,”</i> William James wrote in his influential meditation on habit, <i>”so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like</i> …

Besides the iconic New York City subway map, for which he remains best-known, the design legend <b>Massimo Vignelli</b> (January 10, 1931–May 27, 2014) worked on some of the twentieth century’s most memorable packaging, identity, and public signage for clients like IBM, American Airlines, and …

What extraordinary energy we expend, as a culture and a civilization, on trying to understand where good ideas come from, how creativity works, its secrets, its origins, its mechanisms, and the five-step action plan for coaxing it into manifestation. And little compares to the anguish that comes …

In 2010, shame and empathy researcher Dr. <b>Brené Brown</b> gave us the wonderful and culturally necessary <i>The Gifts of Imperfection</i>, exploring the uncomfortable vulnerability and self-acceptance required in order to truly connect with others. In this charming short film, the folks of the Royal Society for …